Principal Mechanical Engineer

The Principal Mechanical Engineer will work directly as a member of a new product development team, applying their mechanical expertise to deliver a novel, integrated system to solve immediate customer challenges.

They will at times work independently on pieces of systems, with a team of other mechanical engineers, or with other engineering disciplines to ensure a cohesive system design.

The candidate must be highly experienced and autonomous with respect to designing, fabricating, and testing new designs, as well as launching new products into production and supporting systems fielded at customer sites.

We expect our team members to take poorly or partially understood problems and develop high-quality pragmatic solutions quickly and independently.

• Internalize the notion of ownership, display the qualities of a self-starter and proactive problem solver on a cross-disciplinary product team to advance designs from conceptualization to customer acceptance.
• Deeply understand existing customer operational needs and constraints to define system-level requirements including decomposition into appropriate sub-systems.
• Design of practical solutions both quickly and carefully, independently preempting issues of manufacturability and future maintenance.
• Design and execute tests to disambiguate between candidate solutions, find the best approach, and convince the team of your conclusion.
• Transform tested conceptual solutions into robust product designs in coordination with engineering operations, the customer and contract manufacturers.
• Design and release components and systems using SolidWorks and PLM systems.
• Develop production and support documentation including bills of material (BOMs), fabrication and assembly drawings, and maintenance instructions.
• Hands-on prototyping, utilizing shop tools and equipment to quickly iterate ideas and solutions.
• Travel to suppliers and customers as necessary to support build and installation of systems.
• Collaborate with suppliers, machinists, and contract manufacturers to guarantee on-time delivery and deployment for fully assembled, functional, and tested electromechanical systems to customer facilities.